Large birch bark barrette with a porcupine quill CHICKADEE  This is on a traditional birch bark medallion and is by by Paul St John, Mohawk craftsman. The chickadee of natural white with solid black dyed quills  is on an oval birch bark medallion with an inner border of natural white quills with darker ends left on.  The Chickadee sits on a green dyed quill evergreen branch.  Around the medallion's exterior is an border of tidal sweetgrass.   This is traditional quill on birch bark work innovatively made into a barrette.   (A similar necklace w/large round birchbark medallion featuring a similar chickadee may be in this eBay store - if not yet sold)  

The chickadee is of of solid black dyed quills and natural undyed white quills.  The plump chickadee sits on an evergreen branch of dyed brown and dyed green quills.  

The oval barrette birchbark medallion 4.5" long and 3.25" at highest. The barrette clasp on back is 3' long   Last photo is of Paul with 2 of his other creations

Paul St. John lives in Maine near his mother's family.   His mother is Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and MicMac.  He grew up on the Mohawk lands in New York, his father's homeland and is an enrolled Mohawk tribal member.

There are similar barrettes and necklaces of this type by Paul in this eBay store -- and some of another type that uses only porcupine quills and beading. Some of those necklaces have matching beaded/quilled barrettes.  Paul also makes quill and coiled tidal sweetgrass baskets.  These have an quilled animal, bird or Native American design on the top of the lid - find many different styles to choose from in this ebay store as well as dolls, medicine bags, moccasins, knives and more by Paul St John.